The Pleasure Garden, 1925
Hitchcock's first full movie as a director, and it's a snoozefest. There are a few nice Expressionist images, but there is no suspense in this. I'd say it's a romance movie, but there's hardly any romance in it either. I mean, sure, it suffers in comparison with Hitchcock's later movies, and it's possible that it was a masterpiece back in 1925 and just hasn't aged well.
But it's just very dull, with very few hints at the director that Hitchcock became later.
Hitchcock's first full movie as a director, and it's a snoozefest. There are a few nice Expressionist images, but there is no suspense in this. I'd say it's a romance movie, but there's hardly any romance in it either. I mean, sure, it suffers in comparison with Hitchcock's later movies, and it's possible that it was a masterpiece back in 1925 and just hasn't aged well.
But it's just very dull, with very few hints at the director that Hitchcock became later.
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